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🍛 Spiced oven dish 🍗 Cooked in clay oven
tandoori

tandoori

5 3.9
A dish of meat or vegetables soaked in spices and cooked in a clay oven
  • noun
  • /tænˈdʊəri/
: plato tandoori
  • You ordered the tandoori?
  • tandoori chicken
  • tandoori marinade
  • tandoori lamb

Examples

  • You probably made tandoori chicken.

    Throw Momma from the Train (1987)

  • One tandoori chicken, and rice all round.

    Cruella (2021)

  • I need to ask you a few questions involving a tandoori clay oven.

    R.I.P.D. (2013)

  • So juicy tandoori chicken, his meat is just going to fall right off the bone.

  • she loves tandoori chicken.

    Anything Else (2003)

  • It comes in various flavors, Tandoori, lemon, pepper, Cajun.

  • During the year, they saw each other at least once a week for a cheap Tandoori meal at an Indian restaurant draped to resemble a caravan, and they usually talked on the phone a few times a day.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • At the restaurant, I enjoyed a plate of tandoori chicken marinated with spices and served with naan.

  • The tandoori vegetables were flavorful and perfectly cooked in the traditional clay oven.

  • For dinner, we ordered tandoori fish that had a delicious spicy coating and smoky taste.

Surface Forms

tandoori singular
tandooris plural

Morphology

tandoori = tandoor (transparent) = tandoor + i

The noun (a dish) is named via the same formative 'tandoor' + '-i' indicating relation to the tandoor; knowing 'tandoor' supports inferring the dish is cooked in that oven.

Etymology

Tandoori comes from the clay oven tandoor, a word from Persian tanūr meaning 'oven'. A tandoori (the dish) is meat or vegetables marinated in spices and cooked inside that oven, which gives the food its smoky, roasted flavour.